Wallflower

My Sister's Machine (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 10, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Chameleon / Wea
• ASIN: B00005ARQ2
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #102,444 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Inside Of Me

2. Broken Land

3. This Is Fear

4. Steamy Swamp Thang

5. Feed

6. Empty Room

7. 16 Ways To Go

8. Enemy

9. I Slip Away

10. Burn

11. Mockingbird

12. Cracking New Ground

Editorial Reviews

Second album from overlooked and under appreciated Seattle grunge band My Sister's Machine.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More of a party princess than a wallflower !, September 10, 2005

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Dave Ormston (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wallflower (Audio CD)

My Sister's Machine are one of the inexplicably unsuccessful bands of the early nineties grunge scene. In Seattle, they were club-fillers along with Nirvana , Mudhoney and green river at the turn of the decade, and their first album "Diva" was a fine, more conventionally hard rockin' album, albeit with cartoon-terribly lyrics.
Wallflower followed two years later after label problems.

This album is much darker yet takes itself less seriously that its predecessor. More melody and slightly less silly lyrics marked out a definitive grunge groove. Nick Pollock's vocals a magnificent mix of Max Cavalera's growl and Chris Cornell's range and musicality raised "Wallflower" to the quality levels of neighbours Alice In Chains. Walls of guitars, everywhere, particularly "crackin' new ground" and "Inside", lots of light and shade seasoned with power riffing in tracks like " Empty Room" makes THIS listener wonder why they never made it HUGE. Better tunes by far than Pearl Jam for example, and barely a riff stolen from anywhere else over the whole album.

Still a staple in my card CD player more then ten years after release.

If you listen and enjoy, and want more of the wonderful singer/guitarist as Nick Pollock , try the new Soulbender album with Queensyche guitarist Michael Wilton. It is like a modern My Sisters machine album and NOTHING like Queensryche !

Wallflower and My Sisters Machine Highly recommended !

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Belatedly checkin' out this band, May 20, 2011

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Paul Lawrence "'EJL'" (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wallflower (Audio CD)

I missed the hype on these guys first time around. Probably because they were lumped in with grunge, a subgenre of hard rock/metal that I never had a lot of time for. But now as I listen to this album almost two decades after its release I think that perhaps those trying to slot this band into that pigeon hole did them a disservice. In fact instead of having little good to say about this album I have awarded it four stars due to the following;

# The firmly heavy mindset of the album musically and its adherence for the most part to a heads down chugfest mindset that is very connective and not blighted at all by the expected `look how clever/alternative we are' faux pas you might expect.

# The vocals of Nick Pollock which carry this album with their power drenched tones - the guy certain had a `Harley Davidson' voice and he commands attention throughout most of the album just by putting the pedal to the metal vocally in an almost 70's classic rock manner mixed in with a number of moments that reminded me of The Cults Ian Astbury.

# Strong production values that allow some definition in what otherwise could have been a soupy sonic experience given the musical climate of the time and the all-pervading guitar attack. This definition also aids connectivity and provides a less dense listening experience which puts the album firmly into the `casual listen' category in that you don't need to be in the mood to decipher a wall of sound to throw this on.

Overall this is a very enjoyable heavy rock album replete with the aforementioned adherence to the tenets of heaviness and a great vocal performance. While some of the later songs don't really work ( I Slip Away) and there are some times when the grunge tag is justified (Enemy) the band has here produced a fine album with just enough variety and trying of things to really make a lasting impression. A healthy four stars.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars underrated grunge band, May 31, 2010

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Emmett Gilman (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wallflower (Audio CD)

my sisters machine, one of the most underrated bands onf the 90's. Their debut album diva was a great offering, filled with catchy riffs and hooks, albeit with generally awful lyrics. The follow up, wallflower, steps up the writing quality considerably; the songs are filled with dark insight on self control and perception of the masses. While they're still not the best lyrics around they're good and solid. The first half of the album leaves something to be desired, but still offers solid tracks in Inside of Me, Broken Land, and Pain. But the second half stands up to almost any grunge album, with the perversely catchy enemy as the lead single. In addition mocking bird, cracking new ground, and empty room act as powerful ballads. Burn is also an excellent track.
Simply one of the best bands to never make it, up there with "failure", and "the lords of the new church" who both experienced more success than "My Sisters Machine"